> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.hypebot.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Web & DVD Kill CD? WMG Release New Act SUN Sans CD
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/web_dvd_kill_cd/
- Published: 2005-08-29T04:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2005-08-29T04:20:00.000Z
- Description: "When Ohio-based rock band the Sun releases its first full-length album next month, it will be available on DVD, online and on vinyl record. But not on the medium that’s. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2005/08/web_dvd_kill_cd.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

"When Ohio-based rock band the Sun releases its first full-length album next month, it will be available on DVD, online and on vinyl record. But not on the medium that’s still the biggest seller in the music industry today: the compact disc," reports WashingtonPost.com

[![Warner_music_group_logo_3](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/warner_music_group_logo_3.gif "Warner_music_group_logo_3")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/warner%5Fmusic%5Fgroup%5Flogo%5F3.gif&ref=hypebot.com)

"It’s a tip of the hat to the past and the tip of the hat to the future," said Perry Watts-Russell, a senior vice president at Warner Bros. Records Inc., which signed the band.

The label expects the Sun to be the first of many artists to embrace a no-CD, video-only strategy. And that is part of a larger move away from the traditional album concept that some experts say is steering the CD the way of the hand-cranked gramophone.

The full-length CD format, which debuted in 1981, last year sold 766.9 million copies, down from a

[![Itunes_4](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/itunes_4.gif "Itunes_4")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/itunes%5F4.gif&ref=hypebot.com)

high of 942.5 million in 2000, according to statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America. At the same time, online sales — championed by the popular Apple Computer Inc. iTunes Web site — is picking up part of the slack: 139.4 million tracks were sold online in 2004.

Read the full sotry online [here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/25/AR2005082501999.html?referrer=email&ref=hypebot.com).